re: #131 Aunty Entity Dragon

I looked a LOT into trying to document the weapons the IRA had on hand in 1916. (re-eancting gets serious about this sort of thing) Almost no scholarship seems to have been done on this. Some obsolete German rifles and whatever they could buy from Brit soldiers on the black market seems to be norm, along with unnamed shotguns of various sorts that were modified to take improvised bayonets. I imagine they had some American Winchesters or Marlins, but I can’t prove it. The rifles I have on hand I could even think of using are a lever action Marlin or a 1917 Eddystone Enfield (which is, of course, a year later model than the action we are looking at)

Would it be far-fetched to see America as a source of arms smuggled into Ireland at that time? Sawed-off shotguns were available through the Sears Roebuck catalog back then. They probably wouldn’t need it because of the war materiel moving around the region - I can imagine a case of Enfields might get “lost” very easily - but there have always been rumors about IRA fundraising and arms trafficking in New England. I wouldn’t be surprised if it went back that far.